❤️‍🔥 What's new and what's coming to whiteboards!

[Christina Ristevski]

@Diana Lu Yep we've got that on our list - it's mentioned as "Importer" - so providing a way to import whiteboards from other whiteboarding tools into Confluence whiteboards.

[Yatish Madhav]

Only just starting to use whitebaords - enjoying it thus far but really looking forward to the near term changes listed like exporting, grouping, line styling and definately version control ...

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

With the End of Beta and Standard plan limitations announced, I stumbled about the "Active Boards" definition. I would understand the restriction of 3 "active" boards if the User could decide which ones are still worked on and which aren't. A "Deactivate" (i.e. make Read Only) would be so helpful but obviously hasn't been thought of.

That almost renders it useless for us as we have maybe 10% Power Users that will create Boards and the other 90% will only use them after creation. We were hoping to move these Power Users away from other Apps like Miro etc. (for internal collaboration anyway).

Some of the features announced in this post are the bare minimum for Whiteboards in my opinion but still haven't been delivered unfortunately. I had high hopes for this feature but not sure what to expect from it now.

[Ines Niasseri]

It would be really good if we could add more than one jira action to one selection box (e.g. link a user story to an epic AND add component "iOS"). 

[Matt Richards]

It's great to see that the product is continuing to be developed, and is slowly playing feature catch up with the other whiteboarding tools. Once it achieves feature parity with the incumbents, it's proximity to Confluence and Jira will be a big advantage. 

What's less great are the upcoming severe limitations to Standard users. If this impacts you I hope you will contribute your thoughts on the thoughts below!

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards/Plan-Changes-Whiteboards-Crippled-for-Paying-Users/qaq-p/2604977?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kudos_question&utm_content=topic

[Ebergman]

Hi,

Would like to export from Whiteboard to Jira (in order to auto create stories / tasks)

[Helen C]

@Christina Ristevski is there an eta for the importer and also some documentation on what's in there vs what's coming ? I'm looking to have a stakeholder meeting internally to determine if this is a suitable replacement for MIRO for us but need the Importer as a deal breaker item and to know what's in and coming to decide what to do and when. This is important for us as MIRO renewal is 31 July then it will be a year before we can do anything - Happy for a direct contact from someone if needed. 

[Nicolas SCHANG]

Hi @Christina Ristevski 

Firstable, thanks a lot for giving us feedbacks about the new incoming features!

For my teams, we really need "Export" and "Line styling" features, have you some update about when we will be able to get them?

Regards!

[Helen C]

@Christina Ristevski for the stickers I see there are AWS stickers are you also doing Azure stickers these two sets are used a lot in miro by our architects for drawing out systems. This is a big deal for us in term of a must have to be able to migrate to whiteboards

Thanks Helen

[Christina Ristevski]

@Helen C that's definitely something we'll be looking into!

[Helen C]

@Christina Ristevski is there any update as to when an importer (preferable a bulk one - but Ill handle a one by one option if needed) will be available to import Miro boards as live rather than static pages ?

Also any update on when the sticker icons will be updated to include the Azure Architecture ones as we use both AWS and Azure so really need both. 

Cheers

Helen

[Lynne Ratcliffe]

@Christina Ristevski is there any indication of when the voting mechanism will be delivered? That would make me more inclined to use confluence over Miro for our retrospectives. is there somewhere we can watch / vote for changes?

[Danni Jones]

Being able to annotate or draw in the app would be very useful (i.e. with a pen) to annotate thinking

[Kirsten Coppo]

Greetings, Do you have an ETA for Voting? I have to keep going back to Lucidspark for the voting feature. Thanks!

[Ole Treptow]

Hi @Christina Ristevski, 

we are evaluating a change from Miro to Jira Whiteboards. My colleague  @Koloman Pfeffer wrote this community post: Our power user feedback to Confluence Whiteboards ... (atlassian.com)

We would love to communicate a more time bound roadmap to our management in order time bound ur change project. Did I miss it or is it too early for a roadmap?

I hope this feedback is helpful for you and your team!

[Julius Olsson]

I might be new on this account, but I am a user with years of experience on business accounts. Please, how hard can it be to release dotted lines? It should not take a year to release this bare minimum required feature. This is one of the most important features for any whiteboard platform. I really want to use the Atlassian whiteboard product, but you make it hard for me not to just use Miro when you focus on launching new Confluence features instead of improving the ones that already exist. And do not take this the wrong way—if I did not like your products, I would not be using them. However, you need to seriously prioritize feature implementation correctly. @Christina Ristevski